Nam Kyung-pil

Korean spelling
Hangeul	남경필
Hanja	南 景 弼
Revised Romanization	Nam Gyeong-pil
See also : Korean name

Nam Kyung-pil (born January 20, 1965 in Yongin , Gyeonggi-do ) is a South Korean politician of the conservative Bareun party . From 1998 to 2014 he was a member of the South Korean National Assembly and has been the incumbent 34th Governor of Gyeonggi Province since 2014 .

Life

Nam Kyung-pil is the eldest son of the politician and entrepreneur Nam Pyeong-woo and his wife Kim Min-jung. Nam graduated from Yonsei University in 1988 with a degree in social affairs and then worked as a journalist for Kyeongin Ilbo ( 경인 일보 ), a newspaper in Gyeonggi-do owned by his father. From August 1995 to May 1996 he studied at the Yale School of Management , a graduate school affiliated with Yale University , where he obtained his MBA in Public and Private Management .

On March 13, 1998, his father Nam Pyeong-woo, who had been a member of the National Assembly since 1992 and was most recently a member of the conservative Hannara party , died. In the by-elections on July 21, 1998 , Nam Kyung-pil ran for the Hannara Party for his father's former direct mandate in the Paldal-gu constituency. He won the election against the candidate of Saejeongchi Gungminhoeu (National Congress for New Politics) Park Wang-sik with 44.6% of the vote. In the elections for the 16th to 19th National Assembly, he was able to defend his mandate for the Hannara Party, which was renamed the Saenuri Party in 2012 .

On May 15, 2014, Nam resigned from the National Assembly to run for governor in the upcoming local elections for Gyeonggi-do Province and just won the election with 2,524,981 (50.43%) votes against the Deobureo candidate -minju party Kim Jin-pyo with 2,481,824 (49.57%) votes.

On November 22, 2016, Nam Kyung-pil and Kim Yong-tae , members of the National Assembly, announced that they were leaving the ruling Saenuri party, opposing the party leadership, which consists of supporters of President Park Geun-hye , who has since October is under massive criticism for corruption allegations . Together with other former members of the Saenuri party, they founded the conservative Bareun party in January 2017 . On January 25, 2017, Nam announced that he would run for president of South Korea in the next presidential election in 2017 .

Nam Kyung-pil was married to Lee Ji from 1989 to 2014, and they have two sons.

Election results

The following table gives an overview of the election results of Nam Kyung-pil.

year	choice	Constituency	Political party	Be right (%)	Result
1998	By-elections in South Korea 1998 (by-election to the 15th National Assembly)	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Paldal-gu	Hannara	19,112 (44.6%)	elected
2000	Election to the 16th National Assembly	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Paldal-gu	Hannara	51,893 (48.9%)	elected
2004	Election to the 17th National Assembly	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Paldal-gu	Hannara	44,287 (49.2%)	elected
2008	Election to the 18th National Assembly	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Paldal-gu	Hannara	41,025 (64.1%)	elected
2012	Election to the 19th National Assembly	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si C.	Saenuri	50,011 (50.3%)	elected
2014	Local election in South Korea 2014 (election of the governor of Gyeonggi-do)	-	Saenuri	2,524,981 (50.4%)	elected

swell

• Brief biography of Nam Kyung-pil. (PDF) In: University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Public Policy. 2016, accessed February 2, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claire Lee: Nam brings biggest win to Saenuri. In: The Korea Herald . June 5, 2014, accessed February 2, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Kang Seung-woo: Ruling party faces breakup with lawmakers' departure. In: The Korea Times . November 22, 2016, accessed February 2, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Kang Yoon-seung: Provincial governor of Bareun announces presidential bid. In: Yonhap News Aency. January 25, 2017, accessed February 2, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Jun Ji-hye: Gyeonggi governor faces worst crisis of political career. In: The Korea Times . August 20, 2014, accessed February 2, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Search results for Nam Kyung-pil at the Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved February 2, 2017 (Korean). 

Web links

• Official Website (Korean)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Nam is the family name here, Kyung-pil is the first name.